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  • A timeless nature documentary, Best of Editors' Choice by BOOKLIST for the year 2000 - Jan 2001 Issue.
    Synopsis and Testimonials:
    A comprehensive look at the biology of crayfish and their popularity as a commercial food source.
    Contents and footage are protected by international copyright laws - all rights reserved. Written permission, and copyright attribution required. Derivative works and unauthorized use are in violation of copyright laws.
    TESTIMONIALS
    America’s Crayfish: Crawling In Troubled Waters
    "Rarely is a science video as artistically and beautifully produced as this introduction to crayfish."
    Best Of Editors’ Choice 2000 - Jan 2001 Issue - BOOKLIST
    "This informative presentation explains the importance of crayfish to the ecosystems they inhabit and why biologists are concerned with their future, and should therefore be of special interest to nature lovers, environmentalists, and fishing fans. Recommended. - J. McDaniel
    July-August 2000 Issue - VIDEO LIBRARIAN
    "Anyone who thinks crustaceans are boring should view this fascinating, exceptionally well crafted, beautifully videotaped introduction to the life cycle of the crayfish." - James Scholtz
    July 2001 Issue - BOOKLIST
    "I just received my DVD of America's Crayfish: Crawling In Troubled Waters. It is very nicely done and I think my 4th graders will really enjoy it. In the spring, we study the FOSS science unit: Structures of Life (bean sprouts and then crayfish). This is really a highlight of the year and kids do get very attached to "their" crayfish. I usually buy some Cajun Crayfish (pre-cooked) from a grocery store so they can taste them at the end of the unit. (Teachers freeze them at the end of the unit, or the custodian takes them home and eats them ;) We do have crayfish in the streams here in eastern Washington state, and sometimes kids catch them and bring them in to compare with the ones we buy from a distributor in the south. I will recommend this DVD to other teachers in the district because I think the information is really interesting for kids and easy to understand. Thank you."
    Gayle Talbot., 4th Grade Teacher
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  • @TiaMurchieBeyma
    @TiaMurchieBeyma 5 місяців тому +3

    Every time I watch this film and assign it to students, I'm struck by its quality and gorgeous way it tells of crayfish biology, ecology, and evolution, plus economic connections. After 20 years, Betty Wills' work still stands out. Kudos to Virginia Tech, US Fish & Wildlife, and everyone involved.

    • @justapediafoundation
      @justapediafoundation 5 місяців тому +2

      Thank you, @TiaMurchieBeyma!! It does my heart good to know this program is still doing its job. The same for "Alligator Gar:Predator or Prey?" - when it first aired, it was the #1 Neilsen rated program of the evening during the July sweeps. Several people have commented over the years that it may have helped save those magnificent dinosaurs from going extinct. ~Betty Wills

  • @applesauce5987
    @applesauce5987 6 років тому +226

    It is so refreshing to listen to unbiased presentation of information, so hard to find anymore, thank you.

    • @froggleggers1805
      @froggleggers1805 5 років тому +4

      No kidding, its as if we live behind the old iron curtain.

    • @siberiusthesleepingserpent312
      @siberiusthesleepingserpent312 5 років тому +3

      Very good doc.

    • @ieatass4226
      @ieatass4226 5 років тому +18

      apple sauce why would someone have bias when covering crayfish? Is there some conspiracy out there against crayfish?

    • @voidofspaceandtime4684
      @voidofspaceandtime4684 4 роки тому +1

      @Fred Jaminson how do rivers move on a disc?

    • @voidofspaceandtime4684
      @voidofspaceandtime4684 4 роки тому

      @Fred Jaminson Rivers are stuck down by gravity and flow by gravity. Inertia is meaningless if it's constant, as the rotation of the Earth is. Do SOME research at all, without just reciting your conspiracies.

  • @robzone13
    @robzone13 2 роки тому +7

    I opened this because my mothers name was Betty Wills. I was quite surprised to see some of the rivers I grew up near in Missouri. The cinematography and direction were excellent. Thank you so much for sharing.

  • @seanshnizzy
    @seanshnizzy 6 років тому +96

    This is the best crawdad video that doesn’t have to do with catching or eating them, just what I was looking for

    • @cainfromwao
      @cainfromwao 4 роки тому +1

      sean connor same dude

    • @RenegadeHOU
      @RenegadeHOU 3 роки тому +1

      2:33 lol

    • @punothebear
      @punothebear 3 роки тому +2

      They are tasty though when the tails are gently sauted in butter.

    • @thekollector2322
      @thekollector2322 3 роки тому +1

      69 likes nice

    • @cainfromwao
      @cainfromwao 2 роки тому

      @Yourfather1372 bro what the fuck, first of all no i have never met this person in my life, and second i literally have never felt a crush, dated someone, or have WANTED to date someone in my entire life

  • @THEEGOBLINNE
    @THEEGOBLINNE 6 років тому +266

    I smoked a ton of weed before watching this and let me tell you it is incredibly entertaining.

  • @manbearpig2164
    @manbearpig2164 6 років тому +133

    When I was a kid there was millions of these suckers in our ditches, now nothing

    • @kdub9198
      @kdub9198 6 років тому +17

      Paul Steed No kidding. Under every rock. We call them Crawdads in southern California. I remember taking about 7 big ones home and boiling them like lobsters. We were about 10. Unfortunately we lost our appetite along the way...

    • @backyardrally9010
      @backyardrally9010 5 років тому +7

      They left America and went to UK looking

    • @HanaPawsLife
      @HanaPawsLife 5 років тому +9

      Pollution is to blame

    • @davec.3198
      @davec.3198 5 років тому +9

      You live in the wrong places. They are everywhere in NY. Have been since I was a kid.

    • @goparetraitors4156
      @goparetraitors4156 5 років тому +4

      Lots in Oregon use tuna with oil. They go crazy over it.

  • @Farley198033
    @Farley198033 3 роки тому +6

    I'm currently at work, how did I just get stuck for 30 minutes watching this brilliant Crayfish documentary??

    • @EarthwaveSociety
      @EarthwaveSociety  3 роки тому +1

      Is that you, Dad? 🤣 Just kidding - thank you for such a positive review.

  • @JohnS916
    @JohnS916 2 роки тому +13

    Very well done presentation of a species that doesn't get much attention or credit for what they contribute to the general ecosystems of waterways.

  • @revolvermaster4939
    @revolvermaster4939 2 роки тому +2

    They serve a key role in my diet and are a vital link in my tackle box!

  • @FINEDENTIST
    @FINEDENTIST 5 років тому +27

    In the 50's my cousins used to raise crayfish in a pond in a field,they raised them and sold them as bait in area of lake Erie.I was there for a harvest they both walked on opposite sides of pond bank dragging a net,at the end when they pulled out net with thousands of crayfish,they harvested a few hundred returned others and off to bait shop,they made a pretty good living what between the bait shop and a boarding house.

  • @Billy420-69
    @Billy420-69 6 років тому +45

    Crawfish claws are used for the 3 "F"'s Feeding, Fvcking and Fighting.

  • @GunterYang
    @GunterYang Рік тому +1

    At 2:15 the way that fish looks at the other fish like “How you gonna eat my crayfish like that?!” 😂

  • @wr3ncher
    @wr3ncher 2 роки тому +1

    That crayfish clawing out of the fish was some serious "You're coming With Me" shit.

  • @Chompchompyerded
    @Chompchompyerded 3 роки тому +43

    The crayfish (crawdads) we used to find in the creeks and streams of our area have pretty much vanished. The chief culprit has been the overuse of pesticides on farm fields. The pesticides excess pesticide residue washes into the creeks when it rains. The crayfish are very sensitive to it, and will die with even small amounts in the water. It's a sad thing. I miss seeing them and seeing there little burrows in the creek which runs through our farm.

    • @deepsleep7822
      @deepsleep7822 2 роки тому +2

      @mammaduck: so you have a farm. How much pesticides and herbicides are used on your farm?

    • @kenneth9874
      @kenneth9874 2 роки тому +3

      It's not just the pesticides, around here it's mostly miles of sugar cane, the ditches and sloughs used to be teeming with crawfish before they went all in for massive applications of herbicides along with pesticides, they're practically gone now

    • @Wastok
      @Wastok 2 роки тому +2

      I don't know how to say this but crayfish also have very low tolerance for things like nitrate and ammonia in their water supply. Excess fertilizer washing into their habitat can kill them as well.

    • @jayrowe6473
      @jayrowe6473 2 роки тому +2

      I also wonder about the effect of salt and/or calcium chloride used on roads in the winter.

    • @shadowwolf9329
      @shadowwolf9329 2 роки тому +1

      MammaDuck we might be close to the same neck of the woods because in my home state we call crayfish crawdads or as I call 'em Florida lobster. But way smaller.

  • @stevestringham1095
    @stevestringham1095 6 років тому +33

    wow! can't believe how many kinds there are, cray-zee!!

    • @mawmawvee
      @mawmawvee 5 років тому

      Todd, Which kinds do we not eat? I love crawfish, but only get them from restaurants, locally. I only eat Louisiana crawfish.

    • @Macatawai
      @Macatawai 5 років тому

      @Todd Foret theyre all edible lmao

  • @craigmonteforte1478
    @craigmonteforte1478 4 роки тому +6

    over 35 years ago i was in my local pet store buying dress water fish and i noticed a couple of Cray fish in one of the tanks i asked the owner how much are those guys and he replied i dont know i dont sell them they sometimes come in a big bundle of fish he told me if i wanted them he would give them to me for free i took them home and put them both in a 10 gallon tank i had laying around after a few weeks my wife noticed a large growth on one of the Cray fish belly it was eggs and when they began hatching i put a plexiglass divider in the tank to separate the adults we wound up having over 100 healthy Cray fish in the tank unfortunately we had to move over 1000 miles and we had no good way of transporting the tank and the contents so i gave the setup away to a neighbor that had children that were ver fascinated by the tank it was funny back then i couldn’t get much information on raising them i n a tank environment so i kind of made it up as we went along i did however learn they were good escape artists and would often climb out of the tank and walk accross my living room floor which i lived in South Florida at the time and one evening i thought it was a Scorpian coming accross the room in low light lol

    • @labaccident2010
      @labaccident2010 3 роки тому

      I got a tadpole the same way.
      Best summer project, raising a bullfrog

  • @Newishrevolution1
    @Newishrevolution1 2 роки тому +4

    They used to be huge in the streams of Portland, OR. I feel like the homeless camps under all of our bridges with all the garbage polluting the waterways is destroying them. What used to be abundant is now tiny and rare. We used to catch them for fun and release them back. Whoever found the biggest won. We’d spend the whole day doing this.

  • @james.914
    @james.914 Рік тому +2

    Wow this video was packed with information did not realize I was sitting here for 25 mins

  • @johndaut2838
    @johndaut2838 3 роки тому +6

    When I was a kid in Houston, Texas we used to have chimney fights throwing the mounds at each other. We had ditches in front of our houses and when the ditch filled with water they would come out and we would catch them and use for bait.

  • @Dylan-le9zi
    @Dylan-le9zi 3 роки тому +5

    You’ll rarely understand the impact a simple organism can have on its ecosystem, the best example we have in our life is our selfs. Something as simple as a keystone organisms can have a huge impact on its environment

  • @jeffro5032
    @jeffro5032 5 років тому +8

    Such a great , informative video. Guy's , I've been catching and eating crawdad's for over 45 years. In creeks , small rivers and lakes. I have only ever kept the big ones and never , EVER kept a female with eggs. These creatures , along with the NW crabs , I've always looked out for and tried to do my part in protecting them. I've caught thousands , just to let them go , because catching them was the fun part. I grew up out in the country , but have caught plenty in towards the city , and I have seen what pollution has done to some of these awesome animals. It truly saddens me on some of the things I've seen , when actually having to catch them for testing by the DEQ. The Crawdads are so important in the way the life of a stream , river or lake. I hope that anyone that reads this.......take care of these guys! Keep / eat only the big ones , and let the females with eggs go. Take it from a guy who has been around these things his entire life. They are super important!

    • @masaakikamoto796
      @masaakikamoto796 2 роки тому

      I hope many people will read this comment. It's from a kind heart of a true crayfish lover .

    • @jeffro5032
      @jeffro5032 2 роки тому +1

      @@masaakikamoto796 Hey thanks!! Still trying to do my part.

    • @jonathanstein1783
      @jonathanstein1783 2 роки тому

      I've been eating them since I was a kid. Here in the PNW, they're beginning to disappear. Which tells me not everything is good in paradise!
      And yes, when I catch them, I just keep the big ones. And females with eggs are released. It's a good way to help preserve the species.
      Lol catching the bigger ones by hand can be a challenge. I've bled more than once!

  • @eilandwaynette
    @eilandwaynette 5 років тому +2

    I have a lot of pet crayfish and one aquarium is just for moms and babies ... They are so cool to watch 😳 the babies are so small, about 50 swam off their mama yesterday but half went back and got attached to her swimmeretts, those strings under her tail ... Some are hanging out in the grass ... I just love watching them ...

  • @carolynallisee2463
    @carolynallisee2463 6 років тому +31

    I'm glad I came across this video. I live in the UK, and apart from knowing that finding crayfish in a waterway is a good sign of its health, didn't know very much at all about the creatures... other than that our native species is under threat from introduced and invasive American signal crayfish. The video was worth watching to learn that crayfish are a key water creature alone!

    • @backyardrally9010
      @backyardrally9010 5 років тому +5

      Get off your ass and go help eat them!

    • @michaelcampin1464
      @michaelcampin1464 2 роки тому +1

      Its a strange quirk of UK law that you are not legally allowed to catch the invasive American Crayfish but if you do you cannot release them back into the waterway
      If you catch them you can be fined and it you release them back into the water you can be fined and imprisoned.
      Caught out both ways. The law is an Ass

  • @kolapyellow7631
    @kolapyellow7631 3 роки тому +2

    Glad it popped up in my view. Now I learn something new about crayfish. Thanks.

  • @CC-mp7hw
    @CC-mp7hw 6 років тому +9

    Great primer for learning about crayfish.

  • @melted_cheetah
    @melted_cheetah 5 років тому +25

    Always wondered about these creatures... I’ve seen all sorts of sizes and colors over the years. They’re like river lobsters 🦞.

    • @nuttynut722
      @nuttynut722 2 роки тому +6

      not similar, they are river lobster, thats what they are

    • @GameDevNerd
      @GameDevNerd 2 роки тому +2

      They literally are the lobster of rivers, lakes and ponds. They can be found in shallow ditches and sometimes at big mud puddles. They will even dig holes and make mounds so they can survive a drought and wait for rain, so you can even find them in dry fields or places you wouldn't expect.

  • @davidbeckenbaugh9598
    @davidbeckenbaugh9598 2 роки тому +2

    12 years ago, a biology teacher at a local middle school had some Louisiana crayfish as an exhibit. After they spawned, he had too many in his tank so...... he and some of the kids released he excess into the neighborhood lake. Now how could a BIOLOGY teacher be so stupid? Anyway, they took over the lake and the native crayfish were facing extinction. But locals noticed the lake environment going south pretty quickly and found out about the invasive pest. Our local fisheries folks set up a course to identify the critter, and issued permits for year long harvest if a person takes the identification course. We were pulling traps with literally hundreds of invasive crayfish in them two years ago. Now we catch a few a year (meaning individual trappers, there are still quite a few around), and the native crays are making a comeback (though still in low numbers). The lake ecology is improving even more slowly, but it IS improving. And we will be trapping invasive crays for the rest of time. DON"T SPREAD THEM AROUND!!!!! And, oh, by the way, nice informational vid. Thank you.

  • @mawmawvee
    @mawmawvee 5 років тому +2

    I live in South Louisiana and we get crawfish chimneys all over the place, but mostly along low spots in the yard and along the fence lines, plus, they are most numerous in the ditches out front, which are the places that are the wettest. For the first time, the other day, I saw a crawfish come out of a tower and walk around because it had rained and the back yards were draining out to the front.

  • @brianolson9967
    @brianolson9967 5 років тому +7

    Very educational video, I had no idea there was 320 varieties. Where I live all I find are the invasive rusty specie.

  • @robertnewman4072
    @robertnewman4072 2 роки тому +1

    We used to stop the truck sometimes at night and fill the bed full of crawfish crossing the roads.Havent seen that in La in a long time

  • @davidstakston1950
    @davidstakston1950 2 роки тому +6

    In my home state of Wisconsin, we had what I call "Rusty Crayfish Hysteria". Yes, the DNR fish shocking crew would kill the native crayfish because the shocking crew had been brainwashed thinking every crayfish was a rusty crayfish. Now we have three species, probably more, on Wisconsin's Endangered List that depended on the native crayfish's burrow for the place of hibernation over our long, cold Winters. The three species are the Blanchard's Cricket Frog, Massasauga Rattlesnake, and the Hine's Emerald Dragonfly. Now with eDNA the US Fish and Wildlife and DNR could test every stream and river in Wisconsin for the native crayfish who built the burrows and the three Endangered Species. Please let me know if you have your employees using eDNA to restore Endangered Species instead of your employees with a Master Degree selling T-shirts at your stores? P.S. Yes a US Fish and Wildlife scientist with a master degree was selling T-shirts instead of being out in the field restoring our Endangered Species with a great tool, eDNA testing. Thank you for your fast reply.

    • @HELLBENDER77
      @HELLBENDER77 2 роки тому

      as a kid i lived at lake wissota catching bullfrogs and crayfish and turtles by hand and bullheads and bluegills with bread or cheese bait on a cane pole.... best years of my life

  • @arachnonixon
    @arachnonixon 5 років тому +14

    11:37 maybe I'm just weird, but I'd love it if these crab-chimneys covered my lawn. I'd let them run rampant & completely infest the place, it'd be cool.

  • @fengxiong520
    @fengxiong520 3 роки тому +3

    I love these old school random documentaries with the monotone narrator. There's something "homey" about these kinds of documentaries kinda like growing up in the 90s..

    • @Musicball
      @Musicball 3 роки тому

      Yes! Reminds me so much of things I would catch randomly on TV back then, or maybe a video we would watch in Science class. There's a weird comforting aspect of it.

  • @CETGale
    @CETGale 2 роки тому +2

    I had a buddy who is a crabber in S Ga and he was crabbing above I95 in one river that was tidal / brackish / swamp and was being stripped in the pots. He started using smaller grated traps and caught allot of crawdads in a few months, also seen them migrate by the millions before when there was a drought. They are cyclic in their #'s

    • @EarthwaveSociety
      @EarthwaveSociety  2 роки тому

      If you ever come across such a scene, get pictures. Would love to see them!!

  • @dirkbergstrom9751
    @dirkbergstrom9751 6 років тому +7

    I had no idea. Thanks for the video. Poor England, its fishing is legendary. It makes me realize that all anglers, anyone visiting a stream or river, should be aware of what they might carry from place to place. "Catch and release, be wary not to carry"

    • @mrsenstitz
      @mrsenstitz 5 років тому +3

      David Creasey apparently it’s illegal to release crayfish in the UK. They are aggressive predators, killing off the native crayfish.

  • @larrycresse753
    @larrycresse753 Рік тому +1

    Thanks for the great information and video

  • @rh1507
    @rh1507 2 роки тому +1

    I remember those burrows in the back of the backyard next to or around the ditch. I sure miss living there in Southern IL.

  • @ruppedogg
    @ruppedogg 4 роки тому +3

    Underrated documentary. Thanks!

  • @darthslayder6904
    @darthslayder6904 5 років тому +26

    you know your life has reached a new low when you sit on your lawn and pet your pet crayfish.

    • @EarthwaveSociety
      @EarthwaveSociety  5 років тому +5

      😂😂😂😂

    • @cainfromwao
      @cainfromwao 4 роки тому

      Nah my life is at a high when I do that! I love me big black boi scar

  • @tincuptimmetaldetecting9259
    @tincuptimmetaldetecting9259 2 роки тому +2

    Yummy!! Remember this when the shelves are empty ......

  • @chriscasan
    @chriscasan 4 роки тому +1

    I like watching this every once in a while.

  • @muddyriverdogz
    @muddyriverdogz 5 років тому +13

    You can point out pollution until your blue in the face until action is taken nothing is going to change.

    • @thomasbrooklyn1820
      @thomasbrooklyn1820 5 років тому +1

      Has any action been taken as far as you know?

    • @muddyriverdogz
      @muddyriverdogz 5 років тому +1

      @@thomasbrooklyn1820 Not much if any...Most of the action they take is insignificant, just so they can say they have.

    • @voidofspaceandtime4684
      @voidofspaceandtime4684 4 роки тому

      real sad. another species will be threatened... the researchers will point it out, EPA might restrict one factory or something. species dies 20 years later. Cycle repeats.

  • @dwetick1
    @dwetick1 6 років тому +4

    Crayfish have largely disappeared from Lake Erie...I don't know why. They are still found in the tributaries to the lake. Many lake fishermen share this view also.

  • @flyingstonerfpv8736
    @flyingstonerfpv8736 3 роки тому +2

    The ole algorithm brought me to great vids again lmao

  • @mikeholton9876
    @mikeholton9876 3 роки тому +2

    creek lobster!! they're fantastic!

  • @lordofarchons8988
    @lordofarchons8988 2 роки тому +1

    I love crayfish they are probably my favorite fish species of all time

  • @muaddib7685
    @muaddib7685 2 роки тому +1

    I used to see crayfish everywhere in the creeks when I was a young boy. Now I never see crayfish

  • @MichaelCarolina
    @MichaelCarolina 2 роки тому +1

    I need to make one of those "cylinder with trap door" traps; as I have burrowing crayfish in the yard and would love to catch one.

  • @MrHrKaidoOjamaaVKJV
    @MrHrKaidoOjamaaVKJV 5 років тому +1

    An excellent well done primer- documentary on Crayfish.

  • @singledijjiti.q.2294
    @singledijjiti.q.2294 5 років тому +1

    Anyone else caught off guard by the guys snorkeling in 2 inches of water?

    • @EarthwaveSociety
      @EarthwaveSociety  5 років тому

      Captain Spaulding - has your issue with depth perception created any problems when you’re driving? 😉

  • @petrameyer1121
    @petrameyer1121 6 років тому +5

    These developed into a major headache in the UK as an invasive species.

  • @marksolarz3756
    @marksolarz3756 2 роки тому +1

    Snorkeling is extremely easy.....you can find all these creatures. Here in Minnesota....crayfish are found under rocks. In the smaller streams....creeks. They can be almost white..to dark brown..reddish. Another common one..is fresh water clams. I would usually crush up a clam....and being very still. You can get a school of fish...minnows...blue gills..perch..all around you. Better then any nature special you ever saw. Just takes time......and getting out there.

  • @JimSky
    @JimSky 2 роки тому +1

    Pretty damn good even a quarter of a century later.

  • @Catdore
    @Catdore 6 років тому +9

    crayfish/crawdaddies...I saw one crossing a hot country road, picked him up and brought him to a pool where there was water left, he was just about out of steam until he hit the water.

    • @cringebleach905
      @cringebleach905 6 років тому +4

      Alan Fontana good job saving the little fella

    • @Catdore
      @Catdore 6 років тому +1

      the tar road was frying the little guy - but still he kept on - stalwart beast !

    • @romerogiovanni7
      @romerogiovanni7 6 років тому

      Alan Fontana not all heroes wear capes:p

    • @delboytrotter8806
      @delboytrotter8806 5 років тому +1

      I hope you two will be very happy together!

  • @WattWood
    @WattWood 2 роки тому +1

    @16:25 this is what happened here in the U.K , signal crayfish were sold as pets and escaped from farms and have decimated entire river systems since , hoping that the reintroduction of burbot might control them .
    fantastic documentary.

  • @ginnymiller2448
    @ginnymiller2448 5 років тому +7

    Years ago I was remote camping in national forest land. I'd cooked eggs for breakfast and walked down to the stream nearby to wash out my cooking pan. A crawdad happened to be hanging out nearby in the water. He must've been attracted to the small bits of egg I was washing off, because he came over and climbed right into my pan. And no, I didn't eat him. True story.

  • @mitchdroese84
    @mitchdroese84 3 роки тому +1

    Wonderful and informative video. Thank you for posting!

    • @EarthwaveSociety
      @EarthwaveSociety  3 роки тому +1

      You are very welcome. I was pleased to receive a request from FOSS (Full Option Science System) to use the video privately in their program; a program that was developed at the Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California at Berkeley, with funding from the National Science Foundation.

  • @SunnyIlha
    @SunnyIlha 4 роки тому +3

    Every great recreational angling fishery has this creature as the basis of the food chain.

  • @WorldAquariumSingapore
    @WorldAquariumSingapore 3 роки тому +2

    5 years ago video and i am watching it in 2021, anyone else?

    • @EarthwaveSociety
      @EarthwaveSociety  3 роки тому +1

      Over 500,000 views - I think the answer to your question is YES. It's a timeless video.

    • @WorldAquariumSingapore
      @WorldAquariumSingapore 3 роки тому +1

      @@EarthwaveSociety cheers friend evergreen and this is awesome got to meet new friends over the net haha

  • @michaelbstewart8892
    @michaelbstewart8892 4 роки тому +2

    Thank you so much for your enlightening information! Even though crayfish have always been a part of my life from catching them in ponds and streams of Northern Illinois where I grew up I found something in your work to reveal just how important this "simple" creature really is as an indicator of environmental conditions. When I had my business creating and maintaining both natural and artificial ponds in San Diego and other counties to the north in California. I also modified minnow traps to capture hundreds of crayfish as they were destructive to the ornamental aquatic plants that I introduced. Waste not and want not! I loved eating every single crayfish that I ever caught!
    Then in the "El Nino during the 1990's here in California riparian areas were inundated with more rainfall than had been experienced for many, many years. Crayfish habitat extended over huge areas adjacent to riparian areas. Unfortunately this also brought gigantic amounts of pollutants into these "normal" ecologically balanced riparian habitats. Because I offered my services to the more wealthy people in riparian corridors of Rancho Santa Fe and Olievenhein California ponds were susceptible to incredible pollution due to run-off from horse stables up-stream. This spelled a disaster not only to the crayfish but any other fishes in these ponds and streams.
    Only the most wealthy could own property which included part of a major river corridor! And only the most wealthy would abuse this "privalage"! This is so very, very sad in addition considering how we continue to abuse our planet just by our universally terrible habits of waste and abuse! None of us would be able to relinquish responsibility for what we have done to this Earth! There is none to blame but ourselves.
    Yes, the lowly Crawfish could teach us a thing or two!

    • @jackkennedy9475
      @jackkennedy9475 2 роки тому

      Never knew of crayfish in San Diego’s riparian corridors. It figures the progressives in California that claim to want to conserve are the ones not. I see this all the time. Our neighbors flight private, don’t recycle, compost or much of anything to conserve our resources. Shame only virtue signaling via buying carbon offsets instead of conserving.

  • @geraldhoskins2933
    @geraldhoskins2933 2 роки тому +1

    Didn't know the claws could be regrown , bizarre and fascinating.

  • @geekhillbilly2636
    @geekhillbilly2636 2 роки тому +1

    Crawdads (Crayfish) are very numerous in the creek behind my house. Almost too many.

  • @alexferrari8413
    @alexferrari8413 Рік тому +1

    Thank you. These rare gems are why i love youtube

  • @edgeuvchaos
    @edgeuvchaos 6 років тому +9

    Takes me back 35 years ago when I would wade out in creeks around our house and then at my grandmother's house and catch these little buggers and put them in buckets. Sometimes we would fish with them but mostly I would just let them go all at once and watch the race to get away.

  • @andykjohnsonjohnson7622
    @andykjohnsonjohnson7622 4 роки тому +1

    Spectacular video guys 👍. Very informative and educational .

  • @knyghtryder3599
    @knyghtryder3599 3 роки тому +1

    Outstanding vid thanks mucho !!

  • @MrSpikebender
    @MrSpikebender 2 роки тому +1

    In the mid eighties we could go to the San Juaquin river and fill up a five gal. bucket in a afternoon. Even at our age then we knew about conservation. Females/eggs go back for later. Sad they got totally fished out.

  • @nonenoneonenonenone
    @nonenoneonenonenone 2 роки тому +1

    Now I'm so curious to taste one.

  • @semco72057
    @semco72057 5 років тому +2

    We have some here in Arkansas and where I live they form burrows in my yard and in the areas around water streams. I don't eat them, but some people do eat them.

    • @divine_jd
      @divine_jd 4 роки тому +1

      You vegan grandpa?

    • @semco72057
      @semco72057 4 роки тому

      @@divine_jd No, but I love shrimp though.

  • @NoName-np8ko
    @NoName-np8ko 6 років тому +2

    Maaaaaaaaannnnnn! Now you got me hungry for some crayfish.

  • @GloriaJanvier
    @GloriaJanvier 4 роки тому +1

    fantastic video! Thank you!!!

  • @tonycerino9645
    @tonycerino9645 5 років тому +3

    I live in Maryland and at the Maryland school for the blind they have tons of crayfish in the Creek, some damn near a foot long but mostly average size.

  • @bobdigi1989
    @bobdigi1989 2 роки тому

    My Dad is responsible for a loss of about 20 lol. Back in 86 I was 6 yrs old and playing in the creek in Kansas alone catching Crawfish. I head home after spending hours catching em with a cup and slight of hand tricking them to swim back into my cup. My dad was from Louisiana. Little did I know I had made his day! I left my bucket on the step and went to get stuff for they're habit I was keeping them in. By the time I came back they were in a pot of seasoning soaking. I was shocked like wtf just happened 🤣. I moved to New Orleans shortly after and learned quick.

  • @EnvixityXx363
    @EnvixityXx363 5 років тому +1

    Thank you for posting this video! Very educational!

  • @Czjk293
    @Czjk293 2 роки тому

    Saw some in an irrigation ditch the other day!

  • @MrPortajohn
    @MrPortajohn 7 місяців тому +1

    I'm most interested in the crayfish in and around Australia. While we have many species here in the US, there aren't really many obvious visual differences. In Australia or Tasmania, there are enormous crayfish and there are obvious unique shape differences between the burrowers and fully aquatic species, for example. Here in the states, they all look roughly the same. If anyone knows of some documentaries amateur or professional covering a broad variety of species from that area, I'd love a link/name.

  • @aviator1352
    @aviator1352 6 років тому +19

    Mud bugs, gotta love em!!

  • @ariesarethebest271
    @ariesarethebest271 Рік тому

    This was a great upload. I love crustaceans, they're fascinating creatures.

  • @Tay3257
    @Tay3257 2 роки тому +1

    Life was great as a kid wadding in knee high water in search of crayfish.

  • @Hutao345
    @Hutao345 2 роки тому +1

    I love crayfish, they are really cool. I own 2 right now

    • @ianb.2575
      @ianb.2575 2 роки тому

      Ha get wrecked I have 3

  • @scottmccluremcclure3916
    @scottmccluremcclure3916 6 років тому +18

    I'm hungry

  • @paulbriggs3072
    @paulbriggs3072 2 роки тому

    Asa kid, our Dad had a pond installed covering a half acre. He put minnows and crabs (what we call crayfish) in and they formed a an ecosystem. When we dragged a net through it, it was filled with them. It strikes me that the same could be done with threatened species of them for release back into the wild. Small ponds can keep competition out.

    • @EarthwaveSociety
      @EarthwaveSociety  2 роки тому

      That may be giving too much credence to human creations rather than maintaining the balance of nature so we're not extirpating entire species. Keep an eye on the bee & butterfly populations - the warning signs are there. May be time to produce another docucation (documentary for education).

  • @disco07
    @disco07 4 роки тому +1

    I have learned an incredible amount about crayfish from this video. This is especially good since I am considering buying and eating them. Also, the crayfish do live in streams around here so maybe I can eat them for free.

  • @caveaquatics7647
    @caveaquatics7647 5 років тому +3

    5:45 missed opportunity to call it the 3 F's

  • @skeetersaurus6249
    @skeetersaurus6249 5 років тому +2

    Loved to hunt for them when I was a kid...best fish bait known to man, too (little fish won't usually mess with your bait, and you can't keep the trophy fish away from them)! Somehow, someone took them to Britain and put them in their creeks...they see them as an 'overly aggressive invasive species'! I watched a documentary on this...and the whole time kept thinking 'EAT THEM, OR FISH WITH THEM!' You will take care of your 'invasion' quickly! Brits...hilarious...(now, if we gave you Kudzu, you could consider that an act of war).

  • @FindersKeepers88
    @FindersKeepers88 2 роки тому +1

    Good, thx

  • @darwilli77
    @darwilli77 2 роки тому +1

    To confirm if Leon is actually male, look at the final “feathers” under the tail towards the mid section. If they are hard Leon is a male. If they are soft, Leon is Leonna.

  • @scottmccluremcclure3916
    @scottmccluremcclure3916 6 років тому +9

    Relocated to my etouffee

  • @rpscorp9457
    @rpscorp9457 2 роки тому +1

    Used to be the streams around here used to team with them in spring and summer...I saw ones reach six inches. Now in 2022, they are gone...like, gone gone. I couldnt find a single one last week.

  • @corthew
    @corthew 3 роки тому +8

    And in Britain they consider these tasty, quickly reproducing little bugs to be pests.

    • @CharlieSpencers
      @CharlieSpencers 2 роки тому

      Yeah. Because they’re not native, damage our flood defences, harm native biodiversity and eliminate our native crayfish wherever they’re found.

  • @jeffyoung4525
    @jeffyoung4525 5 років тому +7

    Great video. I have a pet crayfish and this video really helps

    • @edithmcgee3080
      @edithmcgee3080 5 років тому +2

      Jeff. Tell me more about your aquarium...of crawfish ?

    • @divine_jd
      @divine_jd 4 роки тому

      @@edithmcgee3080 been like months and you aren't replied yet!!

    • @edithmcgee3080
      @edithmcgee3080 4 роки тому

      @@divine_jd Hello. Its crawfish season all around me in Welsh , LA . They just irrigated the fields 2 weeks ago and set out traps. Will be ready end of February to harvest. Cant take these out of their environment for home tank. I tried that last year.

  • @DaddyRobotX15
    @DaddyRobotX15 2 роки тому +1

    this and tubers are the 2 most easily attained , readily available w/ nominal energy expenditure/investment food source that'd be available if you were placed unexpectedly & immediately onto this continent & needed food asap. That makes them important, among other reasons , for they taste good plus pack enough nutrients to keep a human alive,if they've got water.
    I say this since from my youngest memories of

  • @richardcraig3340
    @richardcraig3340 4 роки тому +4

    I used to use them as bait and my daughter would get mad. I see where she was coming from now. They got it hard enough.

    • @punothebear
      @punothebear 3 роки тому

      Yeah, crawdads have it hard enough. But their tails are great sauteed in butter.

  • @edithmcgee3080
    @edithmcgee3080 5 років тому +1

    Thank you to the producers for this video. Very well done presentation. Exactly what I needed to know. Looking into home aqaurium of few crayfish. I been in Southern Louisiana several years and a crawfish farmer may think Im strange to go ask to buy 4 live crawfish for aquarium tank...to late in the season now. Such inteteresting creatures.

    • @EarthwaveSociety
      @EarthwaveSociety  5 років тому +1

      Happy to know you enjoyed it Edith.

    • @edithmcgee3080
      @edithmcgee3080 5 років тому +1

      @@EarthwaveSociety Im enthilusiastic to set up my home aquarium next season for a few Louisiana crawfish.

    • @EarthwaveSociety
      @EarthwaveSociety  5 років тому +2

      @@edithmcgee3080 Wonderful - I remember when I was growing up in Houston, TX and there were "ditches" at the end of the block to route the water so we wouldn't flood. There were crawdads everywhere!! We caught them as pets, not to eat.

    • @edithmcgee3080
      @edithmcgee3080 5 років тому +1

      @@EarthwaveSociety Yes Betty I grew up very close to Galveston. There are burrowing crawfish and I sappose the ones raised on farms are in the water 24/7

  • @kennyhill2678
    @kennyhill2678 2 роки тому +1

    There's less streams, and less inhabitants in the streams.. And I'm not on the West Coast

  • @rickstorm4198
    @rickstorm4198 2 роки тому

    This was awesome..... Thanks

  • @ineedammo8167
    @ineedammo8167 4 роки тому

    I learned a lot from this video. Very interesting. Thank you for posting it!

  • @caseylayton4898
    @caseylayton4898 3 роки тому

    My guy Bob Distefano looks like Little Carmine on The Sopranos lol

  • @aaronsouthern8515
    @aaronsouthern8515 4 роки тому +1

    Great memories as a child crawdad hunting

  • @kookamongus
    @kookamongus 6 років тому +3

    I love this video